Former United States Air Force colonel and current Democratic nominee for Texas Commissioner for Agriculture Kim Olson was in the Pentagon when American Airlines flight 77 crashed through the building, reigning down terror in the nation's capital on Sept. 11, 2001.

Sad thing is, when the news came through, I wasn’t doing too much. My mom called me. I had the TV on, but it was on a station that rarely had news. I remember that I had to go to town later that day to try and open a bank account. Almost everywhere I went […]

On a horrible day on 9/11/2001, the world as we know it suddenly came undone. Some terrorists commanded two planes filled with passengers to fly straight into the twin towers in New York City at 8:36 a.m. As the skies filled with gray ash, the floors of the buildings started to crumble one by one. […]

I was in my school office in Wilson, in West Texas, when my wife called me and said a plane had struck the World Trade Center. We turned on a television and watched as the second plane struck the other tower and the Pentagon. I met with the campus principal and staff that morning. Parents […]

Stories. Undoubtedly, retired U.S. Army two-star general Gene LaCoste of Alvord has more than a few about many of the 184 victims of the Sept. 11, 2011, terrorist attack on the Pentagon since many were his friends and coworkers.

I was headed back from covering a wreck - the details of which I couldn't begin to remember - on that Tuesday afternoon when I came across maybe the most lasting image of that day, Sept. 11, 2001. A traffic jam in Alvord.